Friday, July 21, was a remarkable night for guitar pop aficionados at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Soccer Mommy, Stef Chura, and The Drums comprised a bill of bands with a penchant for melodic earworms and i...

Keenan Mittag-Degala and Patrick Rendel have been hard at work. However, right now they have just discovered the new Mrs. Pacman feature on Google Maps, giggling like a couple of teenagers out past curfew.
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I would like to think I know my way around a music festival--how to navigate a crowd, a lineup, a schedule. Music festivals, not unlike music, require a keen sense of timing.
Though I tried to map out the in...

As South by Southwest officially enters its thirty-first year, I enter my twenty-first, and our paths finally collide. Growing up, my dad promised to take me to the Elysian musical free-for-all in Austin, Texas...

Who better to close out Noise Pop’s 25th year than Ty Segall? The former staple of the Bay Area music community delivered an explosive and dynamic end to the ten day festival that makes a point to highlight l...

After releasing an initial demo in 2013 and a few split 7”s (including one with labelmates Former Ghosts) Funeral Advantage's debut LP Body Is Dead (2015) and subsequent Body Is Dead (Demos) (2015) found its ...

Surfer Blood is on tour fresh off the release of their new album Snowdonia (2017). They stopped by The Chapel in San Francisco Tuesday night, drawing the largest crowd I've seen at the venue since Real Esta...

There's a few things a gal from Southern California can't live without. Burritos for starters. Somewhere high on that list is surf rock. The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, The Ventures. Sometimes it's hard to indulge i...

In high school perhaps you knew a friend or acquaintance in a band and made the pilgrimage to the local all ages venue, got your hands X'ed and swayed alongside your classmates. Maybe you even had your own band...

Canadian rockers Alvvays instantaneously solidified themselves as classics with a single release. Riding the success of their debut self-titled LP in 2014, Alvvays has been busy playing every festival from her...

Prism Tats won me over the way a burrito falls apart; slowly, and then all at once.
What originated as South African-born, Garett van der Spek's solo project now includes a bassist and drummer based in Los A...

I am one to talk politics, but really who could blame someone with a pussy for speaking out in light of this royal disaster of an election? I'll spare you my totally original and informed political opinions and...

Night Beats stopped by Brick and Mortar Wednesday November 9th to play the psych set of a Bay area college student's dream. The Mystery Lights of Brooklyn, NY are supporting them on this tour. Both bands have a...

The stars collided for a weekend as Peter Hook & The Light, Day Wave, and Hazel English’s paths all fell to San Francisco.
After a career spanning multiple decades and genres as founding member and bass...